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She even thinks that up in heaven Her class lies late and snores, While poor black cherubs rise at seven To do celestial chores.

—Cullen, Countee

The demi-monde does not represent the crowd of courtesans, but the class of declassed women† It is divided from that of honest women by public scandal, and divided from that of the courtesans by money.

—Dumas, Alexandre, fils

What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

Youdon't understand.Icould havehad class.Icould have been a contender. I could have been somebodyö instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it.

—Schulberg, Budd Wilson

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing- fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three-quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

We have here an educated class 95 per cent of whom hate us.

—Chekhov, Anton

Every known class of refusal was successfully exhibited. Onehorse endeavoured to climbtherailsintothe Grand Stand; another, having stoppeddeadatthecritical point, swung round, and returned in consternation to the starting-point, with hisrider hanging likea locket around his neck. Another, dowered with a sense of humour

—Martin Ross

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

—Ricardo, David

She gave him sex and he gave her class.

—Hepburn, Katharine

   Thehistoryofall hithertoexisting society isthehistoryof class struggles.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

   The instinct of mankind warns it against accepting at their face value spiritual demands that cannot satisfy themselves by practical achievements. The road along which the organized workers, like any other class, must climb to power starts from the provision of a more effective economic service than their masters, as their grip upon industry becomes increasingly vacillating and uncertain, are able to supply.

—Tawney, R(ichard) H(enry)

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.

—Hazlitt,William

On a voulu, a'   tort, faire de la bourgeoisie une classe. La bourgeoisie est tout simplement la portion contente¤  e du peuple. Le bourgeois, c'est l'homme qui a maintenant le temps de s'asseoir.Une chaise n'est pas une caste. Humboldt Wrongly, one wanted to make the bourgeoisie a class. The bourgeoisie is simply a contented section of the public. A bourgeois is a man who now has the time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

The businessman dealing with a large political question is reallya painfulsight.It doesseemtomethat businessmen, with a fewexceptions, are worse when theycometo deal with politics than men of any other class.

—Lodge, Henry Cabot

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

—Mill,John Stuart

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

—Washington Bailey

   Therearetwo ideas of government.Therearethose who believethat, if you will only legislatetomakethewell-to- do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislateto make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.

—Bryan,WilliamJennings

The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

—Smiles, Samuel

If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.

—Eagleton,Terry

We ofthesinking middle class†havenothing to losebut our aitches.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.

—Chamberlain,Joseph

I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted, I shall despair of this country being ever preserved froma state George of inferiority, and consequently falling into a very low class among the European states.

—George III

A whore may be naked, but a mistress is nude.We are talking class.

—Kilpatrick,JamesJ

The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.

—Adler,Jerry